By Joel McNally
Milwaukee officials united behind a major new effort to reduce the devastation caused by handguns in Wisconsin until, inexplicably, some of those same officials began negotiating against themselves.
Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, Police Chief Ed Flynn and Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm put together an impressively coordinated campaign against handgun violence after tracing […]
FOX 11 WLUK-TV interviewed WAVE’s Executive Director, Jeri Bonavia on Aug. 8th about an “open carry” picnic in Green Bay, as gun proponents continue to preach the wrong message that our communities need more easy access to lethal guns.
The opposite is true: Wisconsin, and our nation, needs stronger and effective gun laws, such […]
Regression to the Mean, Murder Rates, and Shall-Issue Laws
Patricia Grambsch
The relationship between state murder rates and the liberalization of conditions under which a citizen can obtain a permit to carry a concealed weapon (shall-issue laws) is controversial and important for policy. Many analyses have been done during the last decade, but regression to the mean […]
(University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine Press Release).
PHILADELPHIA – In a first-of its-kind study, epidemiologists at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine found that, on average, guns did not protect those who possessed them from being shot in an assault. The study estimated that people with a gun were 4.5 times more likely to […]
July 2009
Call Your U.S. Senators Today! Ask Them to Oppose S. 845.
Last month we told you about guns in National Parks. This month it’s guns everywhere…
Dangerous legislation is pending in the U.S. Senate.
States currently have the power and authority to determine their own carrying concealed weapons (CCW) policies, but, if passed, S. 845, the […]
For too long, the gun industry has prevented us from passing common sense legislation that would save lives.
Read this article, What the Gun Industry and the NRA Don’t Want You To Know, by Tom Diaz to learn more.
Mr Diaz was our guest at the event we held this month. Thank […]
A Wisconsin Public Radio report by Gil Halsted interviewed Jeri Bonavia on Friday, June 6, 2008:
A Wisconsin gun control group is reacting to Attorney General J. B. Van Hollen’s decision Wednesday to issue a concealed weapons permit to a retired state justice department employee. A spokeswoman for the Wisconsin Anti - Violence Effort […]
Listen to Wave Executuve Director, Jeri Bonavia, in an interview with Shawn Johnson, broadcast on Wisconsin Public Radio on December 28, 2006.
Editorial: Fighting fires with gasoline
October 9, 2006
The recent outbreaks of gun violence - including the shooting of a school principal in Wisconsin - have been so horrific that everyone is looking for solutions.
Everyone, that is, except state Rep. Frank Lasee.
The Bellevue Republican is looking for ways to make things worse. And he has found […]
WAVE: Wis. State Rep. Lasee Exploits Tragic School Shootings to Promote His Extremist ProGun Agenda
10/5/2006 4:20:00 PM
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To: State Desk
Contact: Jeri Bonavia, 414-351-9283 or 414-510-7594 (cell); Web: http://www.waveedfund.org
MILWAUKEE, Oct. 5 /U.S. Newswire/ — Wisconsin Anti-Violence Effort Executive Director Jeri Bonavia released the following statement today in response to State Rep. Frank Lasee’s warped plan […]